Deadpool (ENGLISH)

Deadpool (Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL). The two albums from Deadpool’s soundtrack were released 3 months apart (February and May 2016), and contain both songs and score tracks composed by Junkie XL.

The music of Junkie XL is widely electronic, and is far from being a typical score for the superheroes' movies. And it is like that because Deadpool is a superhero far from the standard that DC and MARVEL have exploited previously. The fundamental fact that separates it from the rest of superheroes' movies is that Deadpool is a comedy, and the instrumental music has fled of the great orchestrations to create an original, relaxed and very electronic score, without evident thematic score as would happen in any other movie of its style. Although the score turns out to be slightly heavy the first time, the sonorous experimentation that the composer practices makes improve the impression of the same one with successive listenings.

The unconventional mix of Junkie XL score with rap songs and other artists in the George Michael and Chicago style in the same album is, at least, risky. In the film sequences they may be perfectly justified, but listening to the soundtrack ends up being a rare mixture that does not like to repeat. On the first album, excepting the songs you might like more or less depending on the listeners and their musical tastes, the score, though correct and with some interesting electronic and orchestral passages, gives the feeling that it is insufficient. It is a clear example of something perfect for the film that scarcely works out of the same one and supports with difficulty the successive listenings. For the second album, Deadpool Reloaded, due to its short duration and that half of the tracks are remixes from score tracks of the first album, the need for listening is virtually nonexistent.